The Charterhouse of Parma on Don Quixote: “In all ages, the base Sancho Panza triumphs, you will find, in the long run, over the sublime Don Quixote.”
The Charterhouse of Parma on La Locandiera: “the play was Goldoni's _La Locanderia_. He examined the architecture of the building, scarcely did he turn his eyes to the stage.”
The Savage Detectives on The Red and the Black: “Librería El Mundo, on Río Nazas: selected poems by Byron, Shelley, and Keats; Stendhal's The Red and the Black (which I've already read); and Lichtenberg's Aphorisms, translated by Alfonso Reyes.”
How to Read and Why on The Red and the Black: “Julien Sorel, in The Red and the Black, pursues his suicidal and more or less heroic erotic career as a Napoleonic clone”
Reading Like a Writer on The Red and the Black: “Like many of Balzac's provincial novels, Stendhal's The Red and the Black begins by introducing the reader to the topography of the town.”